Product Innovation Educators

JULY 31, 2023

Starting from the customer experience to build products customers love Today we are talking about the “working backwards” approach to product that was created at Amazon. To give us the details on this approach, Colin Bryar is with us. Working Backwards started at Amazon in the early 2000s.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

After I left Amazon, one of my key clients was the Gates Foundation, and Greg Widmyer told me, “You do a really nice job taking the little strategies, inserts, and mechanisms from Amazon and delicately implementing them and influencing our work. Amazon has an innovation approached called Working Backwards.

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NextBigWhat

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We all must have heard, read about Amazon’s working backwards principle. How does Amazon’s working backwards process work? This is where the book Working Backwards ( officially launching Feb 18th) makes its mark! But beyond the headline, nothing much has been offered in terms of details.

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NextBigWhat

JANUARY 19, 2021

Excerpts from the book, Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr. In other words, Jeff’s vision was that we needed to focus on loosely coupled interaction via machines through well-defined APIs rather than via humans through emails and meetings. This would free each team to act autonomously and move faster.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 18, 2022

But I was even more excited when Colin Bryar and Bill Carr published their new book, Working Backwards , which provides a deep dive into how the writing culture originated, the problems it sought to solve, the benefits it introduced, and the competitive advantage it created for Amazon.

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The Review by First Round

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Today’s episode is with Bill Carr and Colin Bryar, two long-time Amazon executives who just published a new book, “Working Backwards,” which provides an inside look at how the leadership principles and business processes that have made the company so successful.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How product managers can work backwards to amazing products. They are Colin Bryar and Bill Carr. They document the process Amazon uses to create successful products in a book titled Working Backwards:?Insights, 17:37] What is Amazon’s Working Backwards methodology?

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